Hi all,
Does anyone know if I could take a working memory chip out of a dead 8 GB Sansa e280 and use it to upgrade a Sansa e250, e260, etc? In other words, could I swap out the little detachable circuit board in the smaller player and double or quadruple my memory? Has anyone done a successful memory upgrade in that manner? Would the memory in a Rhapsody model be compatible with the non-Rhapsody Sansa e-series? Thanks in advance.

I did some hunting and I believe I've found the thread to which you were referring. Many thanks. If I'm understanding it correctly the only difference in the 250-280 e-series is the capacity of the little memory board ( and of course the firmware). If anyone else has any thoughts I'd appreciate hearing them.

There's tons of info in there and just not many members around that will be able to give you first hand knowledge of what's possible with the Sansa e2xx series. It's one of the reason we encourage members to use descriptive thread titles. It makes the site much more searchable.

That's like the e2xx Rhapsody models question. IIRC the Rhapsody models had different hardware so I doubt anything would be swappable. However I don't know that for sure so I'd search that if you want to be certain.

Hey, not mad ya. Just letting you know there's a LOT of Sansa E2xx info here. I'm used to searching around here and I probably remember that search term from searching for that same information in the past.

It's just that unless one of the long timers kicks in you may wait a long time for readily available info. Kind of frustrating that you can't do searches of less than 3 characters from within the site. If you're looking for information that falls into that category it's actually better to google it from the outside and include the site's name in the search. It usually leads you right where you need to be here in the site.

You're absolutely right about using Google - thanks for the tip. This forum has really helped me in the past - often you don't find the important info included in the owner's manuals - like how to do a hard reset when your player freezes up.

As stated numerous time above, as long as you're taking the board from a v1 and putting it in a v1, it'll work. same applies for v2. i remember back when i was first active on here(before my e250 broke) there was a post about buying an e250 and an e280(or something) switching the boards and returning the e280 with the e250 board. oh and it's great tgo be back abi community! haha